@@wongbenyb2679The British not possessing intricate knowledge of Occitan, turned Afrikaans, orthography and phonetics (or, more likely, American pop culture), how dare they! Theron is also originally a Greek first name which is pronounced like the Brits in the video did, certainly in Enlgish, at least. The Afrikaans pronunciation is also nothing like Thur-ON. More like Tron. So I suppose the South Africans butcher the original pronunciation, and Charlize (or Hollywood) in turn butcher that pronunciations. And if the Occitans directly or indirectly based the name on the Greek word/name, they butchered it too. In that case, it had gone through four steps of butchering by the time the British were through with it, ending up closer to the original pronunciation than anyone else.
28:15 I live in the city that begins with 'P', so this answer was easy for me. This spire serves as a bell tower. Thank you for including my city in this question, Pointless. I love the show! Well done if you got this pointless answer.
though it was wrong I'm sure Charlize Theron would have smashed it as Harvey Milk
But they also said her name wrong. I saw it spelled phonetically in a magazine interview with her - THAIR-uhn, not Thur-ON.
@@thestingman2966 British people butchering name from other origin. What's new?
@@wongbenyb2679The British not possessing intricate knowledge of Occitan, turned Afrikaans, orthography and phonetics (or, more likely, American pop culture), how dare they! Theron is also originally a Greek first name which is pronounced like the Brits in the video did, certainly in Enlgish, at least.
The Afrikaans pronunciation is also nothing like Thur-ON. More like Tron. So I suppose the South Africans butcher the original pronunciation, and Charlize (or Hollywood) in turn butcher that pronunciations. And if the Occitans directly or indirectly based the name on the Greek word/name, they butchered it too. In that case, it had gone through four steps of butchering by the time the British were through with it, ending up closer to the original pronunciation than anyone else.
@@wongbenyb2679 In this case, it’s not just them. People from North America say her name wrong all the time too.
28:15 I live in the city that begins with 'P', so this answer was easy for me. This spire serves as a bell tower. Thank you for including my city in this question, Pointless. I love the show! Well done if you got this pointless answer.
No mention that the 100 Novels list only contains English-language novels? Also, having looked it up, it's a shocking list.
Yeah, it's really a bad list.
7:06 "It scores you nothing!"
This is the only show where you actually want to hear this.
How the F is c.s Lewis there but Not Tolkien
Tolkien was probably not pointless
Ben Kingston?
Feel really sorry for her don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone one on this show more nervous
Anthropometry!
"what do you want to name your daughter?" - "eh... Lana?"
I know accents exist, but "Belly the Ked"? really?
40:54 - Pointless Answer - 41:08
12:53 - Pointless Answer
6:47 - Pointless Answer
Damn Ehlana
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